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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

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Dressings for Sheep Blowfly. Pastoral. Tests-with Various Oils

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 6

Though many types of dressings are commonly used for the treatment of cutaneous myiasis of sheep (the condition caused by infestation with sheep…

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Dairying. Blight in Dairy Cattle. Method of Treatment

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 6

Ophthalmia or blight, or "pick eye." as it is sometimes called, is an inflammatory affection of the eyes and adjacent parts. Because of its very…

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Pastoral Industry. Pastoral Problems. Facts for the Prime Minister. Discussion with Graziers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

Concern over the present position of the pastoral position has been expressed by several of the new Federal Ministers' during the last few weeks. It is…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

The local agents (Stan. G. Keene & Co) have received the following wire from Dalgety, & Co., Ltd.: We offered 4928 bales yesterday at the opening…

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Butter Exports to U.k

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

Shipments of butter from Australia to the United Kingdom for the current season from 1st July to 7th December were 14,876 tons, and of…

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Wheat Yield. Heavy Wheat Supplies. 250,000 Bags at Tamworth

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

While the continued dry weather has badly hit almost the whole of North and North-western districts of the State, so that further prolongation…

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Butter Bounty. No Change to Be Made

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

No change in the amount of bounty payable on butter exported from Australia will be made in 1930. The general secretary of the…

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Wool Sales. Resumption in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

The wool sales were resumed on Monday, when an average selection totalling 10,692 bales, were offered at auction. Of this number, 9830…

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Export Bounty on Butter. No Alteration for 1930

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

The Australian Stabilisation Committee, sitting in Melbourne, decided that the export bounty on butter for 1930 should remain unaltered, at 4½d. per…

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Stud Southdown Sheep for Merriwa. Imported From England

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 6

Per the s.s. Ferndale, which reached Sydney on Boxing Day, there arrived probably the biggest shipment of stud Southdown sheep from England that…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 6

These notes are issued every week, by direction of the Hon. the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. Should any fanner desire information relevant to his work on the land not referred to in these notes at the time, a query addressed to the…

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Marketing of Wool Federal Minister's Inquiries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

Exception was taken by the Minster for Markets and Transport (Mr. Parker Moloney) to the statements made in Sydney that neither…

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Dominion Farmers South African Contingent Capetown, Jan 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

The South African contingent of dominion farmers, who are visiting Australia, sailed by the Runie. The Chairman, Mr. Allan, who…

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Dairying Prospects. More Rain Needed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

While conditions in the dairying centres have substantially improved since the recent rains much still depends upon the arrival of seasonable…

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Russia's Latest. Farming the Farmer. This Year's Plans. Moscow, Jan. 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

In furtherance of the campaign against well-to-do peasants coupled with the failure of the present harvest, the Soviet has decreed that all…

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Homestead Farm

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

In our advertising columns Messrs. Tibbits and SC[?]S, Land Agents, Gilgandra, N.S.W., advise that 1110 acres are available as Homestead…

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Stud Southdown Sheep Imported From England

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 2

Per the s.s. Ferndale, which reached Sydney on Boxing Day, there arrived probably the biggest shipment of stud Southdown sheep from England that…

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Sold Most Number Fat Cattle—high Prices

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 4

The Secretary Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Coy. writes:- For the year ended 31st December, 1929 we at Flemington (Sydney) SOLD…

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Wool Sales Resumed Little Change in Preholiday Conditions

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 3

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Coy., writes on the 6th January:— Much interest centred in the…

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Sale of Dairy Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 4

Mr. W. N. Dann reports having sold to Mr. C. L. Watson a dairy farm at Woodville of 159 acres, including dairy herd, horses, pigs, farming…

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